Donald Duck Dunn
E1031949
Donald "Duck" Dunn was an American bass guitarist best known for his work with Booker T. & the M.G.'s and as a prolific session musician at Stax Records, playing on numerous classic soul and R&B recordings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Donald Duck Dunn canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13301693 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Duck Dunn Context triple: [The Mar-Keys, member, Donald Duck Dunn]
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A.
Donald Duck
Donald Duck is a classic Disney cartoon character, known for his sailor outfit, short temper, and distinctive semi-intelligible voice.
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B.
Mike “McDuck” Olson
Mike “McDuck” Olson is an American guitarist and founding member of the band Lake Street Dive, known for his versatile playing and contributions to the group’s distinctive soul-pop sound.
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C.
Louie Duck
Louie Duck is one of Donald Duck’s mischievous triplet nephews in Disney cartoons, known for his green attire and adventurous exploits alongside his brothers Huey and Dewey.
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D.
Huey Duck
Huey Duck is one of Donald Duck’s mischievous, red-clad triplet nephews from Disney’s classic cartoons and comics.
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E.
Cliff Hare
Cliff Hare was an influential Auburn University figure and longtime trustee whose contributions to the school's athletics led to his name being honored on Jordan–Hare Stadium.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Duck Dunn Target entity description: Donald "Duck" Dunn was an American bass guitarist best known for his work with Booker T. & the M.G.'s and as a prolific session musician at Stax Records, playing on numerous classic soul and R&B recordings.
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A.
Donald Duck
Donald Duck is a classic Disney cartoon character, known for his sailor outfit, short temper, and distinctive semi-intelligible voice.
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B.
Mike “McDuck” Olson
Mike “McDuck” Olson is an American guitarist and founding member of the band Lake Street Dive, known for his versatile playing and contributions to the group’s distinctive soul-pop sound.
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C.
Louie Duck
Louie Duck is one of Donald Duck’s mischievous triplet nephews in Disney cartoons, known for his green attire and adventurous exploits alongside his brothers Huey and Dewey.
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D.
Huey Duck
Huey Duck is one of Donald Duck’s mischievous, red-clad triplet nephews from Disney’s classic cartoons and comics.
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E.
Cliff Hare
Cliff Hare was an influential Auburn University figure and longtime trustee whose contributions to the school's athletics led to his name being honored on Jordan–Hare Stadium.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bass guitarist
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2012 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Albert King
NERFINISHED
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Booker T. & the M.G.'s NERFINISHED ⓘ Otis Redding NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam & Dave NERFINISHED ⓘ The Blues Brothers Band NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilson Pickett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1941-11-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2012-05-13 ⓘ |
| employer | Stax Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Dunn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
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rhythm and blues ⓘ rock ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| givenName | Donald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
electric bass ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Booker T. & the M.G.'s
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Blues Brothers Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Duck ⓘ |
| notableAppearance |
Blues Brothers 2000
NERFINISHED
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The Blues Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSongPerformance |
Dock of the Bay
NERFINISHED
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Green Onions NERFINISHED ⓘ In the Midnight Hour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
performances in The Blues Brothers films
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recordings with Booker T. & the M.G.'s ⓘ session work for Stax Records ⓘ |
| occupation |
bass guitarist
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record producer ⓘ session musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Memphis, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Tokyo, Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Stax Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Memphis, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Donald Duck Dunn Description of subject: Donald "Duck" Dunn was an American bass guitarist best known for his work with Booker T. & the M.G.'s and as a prolific session musician at Stax Records, playing on numerous classic soul and R&B recordings.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.